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My Role in Gough's Downfall ... Reporter-at-Large … Scoops that flushed out the deceit behind the Dismissal … Big anniversary chinwag in Canberra on November 11 … The combined forces of Kerr, Ellicott and cousin Garfield … Constitutional manipulation … Maurice Byers to the rescue ... Read more >> 

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      October 7 can and should be remembered by Israelis and by Palestinians as marking the commencement of the genocide ... Greg Barns SC
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Knit one, purl one ... Iron Lady of legal rectitude endorses Gageler ... The chief justice wants judges on the straight and narrow ... The cardboard cutout model of legislative supremacy ... The evils of judicial activism ... Procrustes on the dance floor with the Legislative-Judicial Foxtrot ... Read more >> 

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 Pay packets for top brass at the Federal Courts ... A stonking $5 million all up ... See more >> 

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Berlusconi's dream world ... Revenge politics in Italy ... Independence of prosecutors under attack ... Constitutional assault ... The years of lead ... Investigations reopened into old murders ... High drama at Milan's Leoncavallo ... Rome correspondent Silvana Olivetti reports ... Read more >> 

"If we’re only picking people who have got completely lily-white records then we’ll be missing out on a lot of people that can contribute to public life." 

NSW Premier Chris Minns, endorsing Mal Lanyon, his pick for Police Commissioner, whose contributions to public life include shouting drunken obscenities at a paramedic who came to his aid, and commandeering a police launch for private entertainment on New Year's eve ... Read more flatulence ... 

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Schmoozing and betrayal ... Judge Water Softener rides into Integrityville mounted high on his horse ... Judicial review of corruption finding ... Intriguing submissions ... Unprecedented assistance to morals monitor ... The scale of the sub-rosa intrigue ... Plenty to think about ... Ginger Snatch reports ... Read more >> 

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News Desk Special ... Angelic death notices from the bar ... Soapy slips on FOI changes ... Unusual interlocutory costs order for Chris Dale ... Judge ticks off Abbott in letters' page ... Knock About's festive salute to the coppers ... January 19, 2015 ... Read more >> 

 

 

Friday
Feb102023

Fresh despair

, • DateFriday, February 10, 2023

Another sexually harassing judge under secret scrutiny ... Death of Robin Speed - what now for the Law of Rulers Institute? ... Averting the Republic of Gilead - the Law Reform Commission steps up ... Theodora reports 

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Thursday
Feb092023

Complaints department

, • DateThursday, February 9, 2023

Fallout from the Brittany Higgins allegations and the derailed rape trial ... A storm of defamation actions ... Former alleged rapist and former minister want more court action ... Pipelines to the press ... Federal Court opens the suppression portal ... Threats, complaints and investigations ... Theodora reports 

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Wednesday
Feb082023

Wendler goes West

• DateWednesday, February 8, 2023

Margaret River wines ... Big names and garagiste operators ... Doctors and their vines ... "Bigness" beckons ... Wine writer Gabriel Wendler's month in the bush 

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Tuesday
Feb072023

Morpheus arises

• DateTuesday, February 7, 2023

Judge's inability to complete the work as "quickly as I would have liked" ... Latest in a string of slowcoach judgments ... Supreme Court delays ... Boilerplate explanations ... Memory remains as fresh as a daisy ... Groper reports 

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Tuesday
Feb072023

Postcard from Paris

• DateTuesday, February 7, 2023

Strikes, protests and disruption ... The revolutionary spirit persists over planned new retirement age for French workers ... Wine spilt in the 4th ... Country could run out of pension money as contributions dwindle ... Sir Withnail on the latest manifestations 

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Tuesday
Jan312023

Keane to serve

• DateTuesday, January 31, 2023

Former High Court justice Pat Keane takes up a spot on Hong Kong's final court ... British judges bail out ... Rule of law under constant assault ... Overseas judges excluded from sensitive security cases ... Political meddling with the HK legal profession ... Lawyers flee ... Max Shanahan reports 

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Tuesday
Jan312023

A better coup next time

• DateTuesday, January 31, 2023

Roger Fitch on the Republican screwballs and anarchists in the House ... Protecting the insurrectionists and the Trumpenvolk ... Democracy attacked by extensive litigation ... January 6 report ... Unlawful interference by lawyers 

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Friday
Jan272023

Lest we forget

• DateFriday, January 27, 2023

Justinian's review of lawyers and the law for 2022 ... A strangely memorable yet forgettable year ... Few, if any, elephant stamps ... Frantic activity by the new attorney general ... News from the Foreign Desk ... Law 'n Order ... Misconduct ... The works, from Max Shanahan 

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Tuesday
Jan172023

The Man Without A Face

• DateTuesday, January 17, 2023

Encomiums for George Pell ... Peter Dutton's contribution stands out for its sheer idiocy ... The Cardinal's fan club ignores the facts unearthed by the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse ... Role of the jury in the modern world ... Procrustes in sorrow and anger 

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